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Audio: Police Ponder How To Identify Murdered
Man - "Somewhere in this city is a murder scene
that will be filled with blood," was the hypothesis
Detective Inspector Harry Quinn, Wellington Crime Services
Manager put to media at a press conference today in relation
to what Inspector Quinn called a "brutal and bizarre
homicide." The as yet unidentified man found at Owhiro Bay
on Wellington's south coast yesterday was subjected to a
severe beating about the head, had his neck partially
severed and his hands cut off. See... Police
Ponder How To Identify Murdered
ManALSO:

Mutilated
Body Found On Wellington's South Coast - Police have
launched a homicide inquiry after a man's mutilated body was
found floating on the shoreline near the Owhiro Bay Quarry
carpark on Wellington's south coast this morning. The victim
was partially clad and his hands were severed at the wrist.
Detective Inspector Harry Quinn, Wellington District crime
manager, said the man, a European believed to be aged over
60 years, had suffered horrific injuries to his neck and his
arms. Police believe an attempt had been made to sever the
man's head. See... Mutilated
Body Found On Wellington's South
Coast

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